With another turbulent storm for the NCAA is another voice calling for Mark Emmert to lose his job as the president of the governing body for collegiate athletics.
According to the Associated Press, Penn. State Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman released several documents from a recently settled lawsuit he had brought forward. He said he will now forward those documents to the NCAA's executive committee with a particular end in mind.
"If they review it carefully, they will come to the conclusion that there's a culture problem at the NCAA, and if they truly believe in their core values in their mission statement... they will determine that Mark Emmert is no longer a credible person to lead this organization," Corman told reporters from his office in the Pennsylvania Capitol building.
The Senator, whose district includes Penn State University's main campus in State College, sued the NCAA over the $60 million fine the organization levied against the school. The fine was just part of huge sanctions including a four-year bowl ban for the football team, a loss of football scholarships and all the team's wins being vacated from 1998 to 2011.
This came after the release of the Freeh Report, which Penn State commissioned in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. Louis Freeh, a former FBI director, determined numerous Penn State administrators, including the late head coach Joe Paterno, knew about Sandusky's crimes and did not sufficiently try to stop them.
But the NCAA has lifted all the sanctions ahead of their own timetable, citing exemplary behavior from Penn State. One of the conditions of the NCAA's settlement of Corman's lawsuit was restoring Paterno's vacated wins. The $60 million was also determined to stay in the state to benefit victimized children.
Corman and other Penn State officials have been critical of the NCAA and how they handled the situation, but the organizations chief legal officer, Donald Remy fired back at the senator.
"It is no coincidence that his political career was simultaneously elevated during a litigation impacting the disbursement of money to child sexual abuse victims nationwide," Remy said in a statement. "In settling the litigation, the NCAA agreed to move forward so that discussions could be rightfully refocused towards child sexual abuse survivors."
